is a member of the Nightjar family. Resident in s Florida and coastal sc USA, it breeds across eastern North America, wintering in the Caribbean, e Mexico, Central America and the western lowlands of extreme north-west South America. It’s English name is familiar, especially in North America. However, being a nocturnal bird it is seldom seen.

[This bird, along with the All the World’s more than 90 other extant species of Nightjar, is featured in the ATWB Part-by-Part Companion Guide PART FOUR – click here for details.]

BIRDQUIZ 19/4 To have a good chance of seeing both these species on the same day, where would you need to be birding?

636/5797 Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus

680/6142 Island Monarch Monarcha cinerascens

Answer 19/4:

Island Monarch is resident on coasts and smaller islands of Wallacea in north-west Australasia. Ashy Minivet breeds in eastern Asia, moving south post-breeding to winter in South-east Asia and the Philippines. Additionally, some birds overwinter in the northern part of the island of Sulawesi in north central Indonesia, and it is here that the ranges of these two species overlap. So, to have a good chance of seeing both these species on the same day, you would need to be birding in the coastal region of northern Sulawesi outside of the northern hemisphere breeding season.

[These birds are featured in the ATWB Focus on WALLACEA Companion Guide and the ATWB Sulawesi Interactive Checklist – click here and here for details.]

is normally thought of as a “Jamaica endemic”, but a subspecies I. l. lawrencii is resident on San Andrés Island in the sw Caribbean Sea off the coast of Nicaragua. [Another subspecies I. l. bairdi formerly lived on Grand Cayman Island, but is now extinct.] San Andrés Island is part of the country of Colombia.

[You can find Jamaican Oriole and many other bird species with restricted ranges in South America, Middle America and the Caribbean in the ATWB PART TWELVE Companion Guide – click here for details.]

[In v8.2 of the IOC birdlist there are 334 species of Hummingbird regularly present in South America/Middle America. Find them all in the ATWB South America/Middle America REGIONS Companion Guide Volume 1: Non-Passerines – click here for details.]